BetterBert
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Improved, convalesced, slightly less unpleasant
... featuring the lovely Gina #DogsOfBluesky
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... featuring the lovely Gina #DogsOfBluesky
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According to Nile Rodgers the original lyrics of Chic's 'Le Freak' were "Fuck off Studio 54"
Disco actually didn't suck.
Chuck Schumer on the other hand did and does.
Disco actually didn't suck.
Chuck Schumer on the other hand did and does.
apropos of nothing, here’s a photo of a young chuck schumer attending trump lawyer & confidante (& joe mccarthy associate) roy cohn’s birthday party at studio 54, in 1979
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
According to Nile Rodgers the original lyrics of Chic's 'Le Freak' were "Fuck off Studio 54"
Disco actually didn't suck.
Chuck Schumer on the other hand did and does.
Disco actually didn't suck.
Chuck Schumer on the other hand did and does.
This is a good read in the New Yorker.
Nice to see Anthony Lane get past the shaming choice of Allison Pearson as something to touch with a bargepole.
Nice to see Anthony Lane get past the shaming choice of Allison Pearson as something to touch with a bargepole.
Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir
The actor recalls his life, from provincial Wales to Hollywood, in stop-start rhythms with curt, unflinching reckonings.
www.newyorker.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is a good read in the New Yorker.
Nice to see Anthony Lane get past the shaming choice of Allison Pearson as something to touch with a bargepole.
Nice to see Anthony Lane get past the shaming choice of Allison Pearson as something to touch with a bargepole.
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And then vomits live eels.
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
And then vomits live eels.
@anandmenon.bsky.social is unambiguously good news, but this Anand Menon lecture is a bummer. As he acknowledges more than once. He fluffs the very final word, revealingly. 45 minutes, it's excellent throughout.
Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
@anandmenon.bsky.social is unambiguously good news, but this Anand Menon lecture is a bummer. As he acknowledges more than once. He fluffs the very final word, revealingly. 45 minutes, it's excellent throughout.
Looking through old posts for some reason. Struck again by how weak Pacino's effort is here.
On the left is the face of a predator nearing the end of a life in which every day, without emotion, he has killed what he eats. On the right is the face of an actor startled by a damp fart.
On the left is the face of a predator nearing the end of a life in which every day, without emotion, he has killed what he eats. On the right is the face of an actor startled by a damp fart.
It's the dead eyes isn't it.
Al Pacino gave it a go but even he was nowhere close.
Miller on the other hand looks more and more like him every day.
Al Pacino gave it a go but even he was nowhere close.
Miller on the other hand looks more and more like him every day.
November 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Looking through old posts for some reason. Struck again by how weak Pacino's effort is here.
On the left is the face of a predator nearing the end of a life in which every day, without emotion, he has killed what he eats. On the right is the face of an actor startled by a damp fart.
On the left is the face of a predator nearing the end of a life in which every day, without emotion, he has killed what he eats. On the right is the face of an actor startled by a damp fart.
The news today, oh boy, the English army had just won the war
October 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The news today, oh boy, the English army had just won the war
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
Who the fuck let this through? Can't be Micklethwait & Wooldridge, they're long gone.
And anyway at that '24 campaign event Micklethwait stuck to his free trade principles. Didn't pander.
And anyway at that '24 campaign event Micklethwait stuck to his free trade principles. Didn't pander.
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
Trump 2028
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
econ.st
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Who the fuck let this through? Can't be Micklethwait & Wooldridge, they're long gone.
And anyway at that '24 campaign event Micklethwait stuck to his free trade principles. Didn't pander.
And anyway at that '24 campaign event Micklethwait stuck to his free trade principles. Didn't pander.
Just saw this. A Royal Society that took its values seriously would be burning him in effigy.
#Skum
#Skum
A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society
A statement from Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society, regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.
royalsociety.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Just saw this. A Royal Society that took its values seriously would be burning him in effigy.
#Skum
#Skum
Note the artist's sensitive rendering of Charlie Kirk's cum face as Jesus reaches round to use the flat palm of his unseen other hand as a fleshlight
October 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Note the artist's sensitive rendering of Charlie Kirk's cum face as Jesus reaches round to use the flat palm of his unseen other hand as a fleshlight
Gina in the park in the autumn sunshine
#DogsOfBluesky
#DogsOfBluesky
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Gina in the park in the autumn sunshine
#DogsOfBluesky
#DogsOfBluesky
Before he got his current job his main grift was merch.
And the merch is *tragic*.
K$H Patel, on his way to a fancy dress party as an offensive racial stereotype: "Is it cos I is black?"
And the merch is *tragic*.
K$H Patel, on his way to a fancy dress party as an offensive racial stereotype: "Is it cos I is black?"
LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH
October 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Before he got his current job his main grift was merch.
And the merch is *tragic*.
K$H Patel, on his way to a fancy dress party as an offensive racial stereotype: "Is it cos I is black?"
And the merch is *tragic*.
K$H Patel, on his way to a fancy dress party as an offensive racial stereotype: "Is it cos I is black?"
Holbein, Dürer too.
He's twenty years old and WW1 is round the corner.
He's twenty years old and WW1 is round the corner.
Known for his unforgiving and often critical depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic, this self-portrait by Otto Dix (1912) pays homage to the work of the Italian Old Masters - the carnation was a popular motif in northern Italian Renaissance painting.
October 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Holbein, Dürer too.
He's twenty years old and WW1 is round the corner.
He's twenty years old and WW1 is round the corner.
Choosing to address that audience as children. Grande ecole condescension. Quel con.
September 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Choosing to address that audience as children. Grande ecole condescension. Quel con.
Hyde Park, painting from 2014
September 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hyde Park, painting from 2014
About fucking time
Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...
Royal Society to debate throwing out Elon Musk
One of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world is considering expelling Musk after his appearance at Tommy Robinson’s extremist London rally
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
About fucking time
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Alien: Earth is good telly.
August 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Alien: Earth is good telly.
Sunflowers in Hyde Park, late September
(Winter is Coming)
(Winter is Coming)
September 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Sunflowers in Hyde Park, late September
(Winter is Coming)
(Winter is Coming)
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What half a century does to a London mural, vivid colours to ghostly remains [Floyd Road]
September 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
What half a century does to a London mural, vivid colours to ghostly remains [Floyd Road]
Founder mode: "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
September 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Founder mode: "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
I grew up in the alliance life office. There were problems of course, but things were good. For some reason that I'm still struggling to understand we all got moved to the Cunty Fire Office where everything's shit
Sherwood Street and Denman Street, London - September 2025
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I grew up in the alliance life office. There were problems of course, but things were good. For some reason that I'm still struggling to understand we all got moved to the Cunty Fire Office where everything's shit